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Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: jetb123 on August 27, 2004, 12:34:31 AM

Alright I am leaning on towards getting one gig. But my friend said I wont see a deffrence in gameplay. Is that true?

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Defiance on August 27, 2004, 02:41:35 AM

I see on other post you went for the gig    wtg ;)

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: FOGOLD on August 27, 2004, 06:01:58 AM

I installed a gig, for Forgotten battles mostly. Less jerking and loading, but I wouldn't say the difference is huge especially in AH.

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Reschke on August 28, 2004, 09:11:41 PM

At the way games run now on my A64 and the way they ran on my XP2600 I wouldn't have had anything less than a gig of RAM. I started with 512MB but quickly saw the error in judgement with the 512 using the old CPU. Then made the upgrade. Not to mention a short while later jumping to the A64 CPU with a gig of RAM also.

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: AaronM2 on August 31, 2004, 04:40:12 PM

:) im going to get 3gigs that how much my mother board can hold thats what im going to use

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: JTs on August 31, 2004, 04:53:11 PM

go with 2 sticks of 512. your mobo can run memory in single or dual channel mode. 2 sticks of matched memory will run faster than 1. if you fill all the slots it will run in single channel mode.

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: DAVENRINO on August 31, 2004, 05:11:56 PM

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Originally posted by JTs
go with 2 sticks of 512. your mobo can run memory in single or dual channel mode. 2 sticks of matched memory will run faster than 1. if you fill all the slots it will run in single channel mode.

Not always so.  I have a 512 + two 256s running in dual channel mode.

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Edbert on September 01, 2004, 07:38:09 AM

512 will be enough for any game that loads less than that amount. For any game that want to load more you will see a performance and/or quality hit with only 512.

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: buzkill on September 04, 2004, 11:47:11 AM

if you pre-cache in ahII like i do you'll need more(i've seen it take up over 590Mb at times)

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: AaronM2 on September 04, 2004, 02:16:41 PM

im getin 1gb 4 now going to 3gb later on :) yep dats alot dont know why i need that much guess just to brag but 4 now just going to get 3sticks of 512 just 2 4now so  ill have 1024

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: AaronM2 on September 04, 2004, 02:17:53 PM

and 512 isent good here i have the this sucky computer rams 512 and AhII takes up like 530+ :confused: :confused:

Title: Re: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Overlag on September 04, 2004, 09:31:39 PM

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Originally posted by jetb123
Alright I am leaning on towards getting one gig. But my friend said I wont see a deffrence in gameplay. Is that true?

hes bull****ing you

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Overlag on September 04, 2004, 09:32:41 PM

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Originally posted by AaronM2
:) im going to get 3gigs that how much my mother board can hold thats what im going to use

3gig is TOTALY OTT and wont gain you much at all

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: AaronM2 on September 04, 2004, 09:40:33 PM

LOL

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: bloom25 on September 04, 2004, 09:56:02 PM

Going from 1 GB to 3 GB will likely result in a slightly slower system overall.  Loading all memory banks with 1 GB modules will certainly force a 2T command rate (and possibly other memory timings to be set more conservatively) and decrease available memory bandwidth.  (I'm also ignoring the fact that a 1 GB memory stick is extremely expensive.)

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Roscoroo on September 04, 2004, 10:17:05 PM

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Originally posted by AaronM2
and 512 isent good here i have the this sucky computer rams 512 and AhII takes up like 530+ :confused: :confused:

Tell that to my pc thats running 384mb's ram .. I dont think it knows any better yet.

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: Balsy on September 05, 2004, 07:37:30 AM

So Does AHII work better with 1gb than 512, or is it a non issue?

Balsy

Title: 1 gig or 512
Post by: AaronM2 on September 05, 2004, 05:55:54 PM

id say 1gb id think u would get less studders :aok